best way to do tabs in php?
 

other than (need to do 5 or 6 of them

echo "\t";

I know people has PHP_EOL instead of "\n"

I don't think there's a PHP_EOL equivalent for tabs.

PHP_EOL was added to help prevent problems with \n vs \r\n (depending on your local system). Tabs don't have that problem so I doubt they added a predefined constant for tabs.

< pre >asdf\tasdf</ pre >

Try using single quote '\t' instead of "\t"

what's wrong with \t? you can always define your own constant, call it TAB or something?